1.

Staph aureus

Catalase +

Coagulase +

It does not ferment mannitol on msa

It is novabiocin disc resistant

It is a Gram + cocci prefominantly found in clusters

8. Regarding Droplet infection

- infectious does <5

- No special ventilation is required

- Pertussis is an example of

- Include pulmonary ventilation

- Precautions include hand hygiene, distance,

Which of the following is airborne infection:

A) mycobacterium tuberculosis

B) chicken pox

C) measles

D) influenza

E) common cold

55. Branches of microbiology except

Parasitology

Mycology

Bacteriology

Virology

Toxicology
15.Regarding salmonella infections

. Typhoid fever and parathyroid fever are called enteric fever

.S typhi, S Paratyphi A and S Parathyphi B cause infection in animals and

humans

.Patients with achlorhydia are at an increased risk

.Type 111 secretion is a virulent factor

.Bone marrow culture is the gold standard for diagnosis

10. Concerning additional precautions

A. Also known as transmission based precautions

B. Include airborne precautions

C. Do not include contact or droplet precautions

D. Must be observed alongside standard precautions

E. Isolation or cohortation of patients with MRSA is an example

6. Regarding enterococcus

a. 80% of clinical isolates are enterococcus feacalis

b. E. Feacium is multidrug resistant and more virulent

c. It is both bile esculin and PYR positive

d. Its ability to survive in 6.5% NaCl is a distinctive characteristics

e. It is a cause of health care associated UTI

11. Which of the following is/are super antigens

a. TSST-1

b. Staphylococcal enterotoxin

c. Staphylococcal exfoliative toxin

d. Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome toxin

e. Diphtheria toxin
40. Concerning bacteria

a. They are unicellular prokaryotic

B. They have a highly organised Membrane bound nucleus

C. They come in different sizes,shapes, and arrangements

D. Parasitic forms don’t exist

E. They are Visible to the naked eyes as colony form

39. Which of the following is the Job of a medical microbiologist in anti

microbial committee

A. Develop policies on how to use anti microbials

b. Give guidance on how to use antimicrobial

c. Give guidance to clinicians so as to reduce pressure and antimicrobial so

as to avoid resistance

d. Only medical microbiologist and physician are in the committee

e. It is the job of the committee to train hospital staff

51. The scientists of microbiology

A. Antony Van leeuwenhork – microscope

B. Louis Pasteur – germ theory of disease

C. Joseph lister – pioneer of antiseptics

D. Robert Koch – culture medium for bacteria

E. d’herelle and Twort – founders of the principles of modern virology

29) The following are extrachromosomal genetic elements found in bacteria

a) plasmid

B) integron

C) bacteriophages

D) transposon

E) chromosome
50. The following are normal body floras and their site:

A. Stap Aureus, stap Epidermidis and diphtheroids: skin.

B. Anaerobe and enterobacteriales: colon

C. Lactobacillus and stap Aureus: vagina

D. S. Viridans and bacteroides: mouth

E. H- influenza and s. Pneumonia: nasopharynx

56.Key xtics of cholera

A: Abrupt watery diarrhea

B:Abrupt bloody diarrhea

C:Fever

D:Are never asymptomatic

E:?

37. True or False

A) Consultant Medical Microbiologist is not allowed to make input in culturing

B) Infectious diseases are not prone to spread in Hospital environment

C) Medical Microbioloist Consultant is the Head of the department

D)

E)

48. Regarding bacteria growth

A. The lag phase is the most reproducible phase

B. In the exponential phase, the linear curve increases with the log number
of bacteria

C. In the stationary phase, the no of bacteria decreases

D. In the decline phase, there is rapid decline of bacteria cells

E. The lag phase is the preparatory phase

23. Concerning oxygen requirements of bacteria

A. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an obligate aerobe

B. Bacteroides fragilis is an obligate anaerobe

C. Staphylococcus aureus is a facultative anaerobe

D. Compylobacter spp is microaerophilic

E. Neisseria meningitidis is capnophilic

21. Concerning health care waste management

(A).Infectious waste include used gloves, wound dressing, blood, body fluid,
used specimen containers and sharp boxes

(B).Highly infectious waste include anatomical waste such as placenta,

pathological waste such as amputated diabetic foot, sputum from TB
patients

©.Non infectious wastes include paper, carton, plastic bottle and food

(D).Infectious waste should be segregated in a red color coded waste

bin/linen

€.Non infectious waste should be segregated in a black color coded waste

bin/linen, while Highly infectious waste should be segregated in yellow color
coded waste bin/linen

18.Concerning diphtheria

-Treatment as soon as diagnosis is made

-ELEK test is in-vivo method of demonstrating the toxin

-Manifestation includes pseudo membrane forming…

-caused by non lysogenized strain of c diphtheria

27. True or false

A) bacteria has multiple double stranded DNA

B) the chromosome is surrounded by nuclear membrane

C)the genes code for only virulence factors

D) bacteria do not have RNA

E)

43. Shigella dysenteriae serotype 1:

a) is the only shigella producing the Shiga toxin

B) Also called Schimtz’s bacillus

C) the only member of the enterobacterales that is catalase negative

D) Assodiated with haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS)

e) ferments mannitol like the other species.

5 hands hygiene

a)before patient contact

B)after contact with body fluid

C)after contact with patient

D)after contact with patient surrounding

E)before anstiseptic procedures

31.True or false

A)DNA recombination occirs during transformación

B)pillus is required for tansduction

C)CRISPr-ras9 is a

D)mutation are lethal for bacteria

E)in conjugation, the recipient cell produces the conduit for Gene transfer

19- Droplets transmitted infections include which of the following

A- Influenza
B- COVID
C- Meningitis
D- Measles
E- Chicken pox
58. Grow at temperature over 42°

a. E.coli

b. Klebsiella

c. Pseudomnas aeruginosa

d. Vibrio cholerae

True of false

A Acquired immunity gets activated few hours after infection

B NK cells are part of innate immune system

C Mucous is only present in Respiratory tract

D arrangement of skin layers helps to increase bacterial invasion

E Bile salts serve to provide innate immunity

Streptococcus

a) streptococcus pyogenes is group B and b-hemolytic

b) streptococcus agalactic is group A and b-hemolytic

c) enterococcus is part

d) Viridans is a-hemolytic

e) pneumonia is a-hemolytic

5. Concerning streptococcus pneumonia:

a) The infections are pneumonia, acute bacterial meningitis, acute Otis

media

b) It is a diplococci gram positive bacteria that is alpha hemolytic

c) Quelling’s test is used to detect its capsule

d) Penicillin is used to treat most of its infections

60. Concerning enterobacteriales, the following are its characteristics.

A. It is catalase positive

B. It is a facultative anaerobe
C. it converts nitrite to nitrate

D. It is generally oxidase positive

E. It is a gram negative bacilli

Airborne transmitted infections include which of the following

A- Pulmonary tuberculosis
B- Influenza
C- Pertuses
D- Chicken pox
E- Common cold

50. The normal flora are matched with the same sites

a)Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermis, Diphteroids- skin

b)Anaerobes, Enterobacteriales – colon

c)Lactobacillus and staph aureus - vagina

d)Viridans streptococci and Bacterides – mouth

e) Streptococcus pneumonia- Throat

49. Regarding shigella species

a) ALl strains are Non-Lactose fermenters

b) They are non-motile

c) They are causative agent of amoebic dysentery

d) S. Dysenteria and S. Sonnei are. Most virulent

e) Usually non invasive , don’t intrude other tissues

22) The following are moments for hand hygiene

a) Before patient contact

b) Before aseptic task

c) After body fluid exposure task

d) After patient contact

e) After contact with patient surroundings

41) Concerning Bacterial Morphology,

a) It describes characteristics of bacteria

b) It describes the pathogenicity and virulence of bacteria

c) It does not affect the mode of nutrition of the bacteria

d)It doesn’t affect the adaptation and evolution of bacteria

e) It is the most important characteristic of bacteria

46. Concerning clostridium perfringes:

A- large, motile and …

B- naglers reaction

C- causes only gas gangrene

D- gas gangrene is polymicrobial

F- Alpha toxin acts through phospholipids C

28)Regarding extrachromosomal genetic bodies

A. Plasmids are capable of independent replication

B.transposons are capable of intragenomic transposition

C. Integrons are capable of independent replication

D. Plasmids carry gene cassetes

E. Integrons carry virulence factors

24. Concerning bacteria temperature requirements

A.Flavobacterium is a psyphophilc bacteria

B.Bacterium stearothermophilus are psychrophilic

C.Mesophiles grow between 20-40

D.Thermopiles grow in temperatures >60

16 concerning typhoid fever

A)Blood culture can be positive in 3weeks in 50% of patients but is usually
present in first week of illness

B)Stool culture is positive in 1st week but is usually positive in late weeks of
illness

C)Urine culture is positive after 2weeks of illness

D)Diarrhea precedes constipation

E)Incubation period is 7-14days